“Oh yeah, I had just turned 18.”
And you didn’t understand that he was mocking patriotism? The stoned-out flower children at Woodstock got it.
You were a “stoned out” flower child who “got it”?
Oh I understood it alright, but I turned it into a positive. Because no one could change my love for this country. There may have been some things that were not perfect about this country, but it was still the best around. That is the message I passed along to everyone I knew. Even then I could see that the good far outweighed the bad. So my philosophy was to take something that others saw as bad and turned it into a good. Even this version of the Star Spangled Banner.